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ameserole's review
4.0
Pretty good audio.
206 Bones is just another book in the Temperance Brennan series where she finds herself in trouble. It's pretty consistent so I just knew before diving in that something crazy was going to happen. Just like in the TV show, Bones, Tempe is kidnapped. She's in danger and doesn't really know where she is until the end of the book. Of course, she's betrayed by someone that was working with - which a good twist.
I liked this book because I wasn't really dealing with Ryan being a dumb guy. Or their relationship going through something stupid. I mean, he still was a jerk in some ways when he was drinking.. but people usually are.
The case that Tempe was working on was pretty interesting but I will admit.. I did, at one point, lose interest. Not because I was bored with the book.. but I just kind of ended up daydreaming about something else lol. Or my dog would just be annoying and want my love.
Overall, I enjoyed the audio and I can't wait to dive into the next one. I'm hoping that Brennan will change her ways and not be so easily to catch.. but eh, I'm not that hopeful either.
206 Bones is just another book in the Temperance Brennan series where she finds herself in trouble. It's pretty consistent so I just knew before diving in that something crazy was going to happen. Just like in the TV show, Bones, Tempe is kidnapped. She's in danger and doesn't really know where she is until the end of the book. Of course, she's betrayed by someone that was working with - which a good twist.
I liked this book because I wasn't really dealing with Ryan being a dumb guy. Or their relationship going through something stupid. I mean, he still was a jerk in some ways when he was drinking.. but people usually are.
The case that Tempe was working on was pretty interesting but I will admit.. I did, at one point, lose interest. Not because I was bored with the book.. but I just kind of ended up daydreaming about something else lol. Or my dog would just be annoying and want my love.
Overall, I enjoyed the audio and I can't wait to dive into the next one. I'm hoping that Brennan will change her ways and not be so easily to catch.. but eh, I'm not that hopeful either.
travmanrn's review against another edition
4.0
I love bones and i loved this book. Def want to read more by her.
krobart's review
3.0
I find the Tempe Brennan books that take place in Montreal more interesting than those in Charlotte for some reason, perhaps because they seem more atmospheric. The Tempe Brennan series is the very lightest of mystery reading, but the books are rapidly turning into action novels rather than the interesting explorations in forensics that they started out to be.
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See my complete review here:
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eveak's review
2.0
I really like Kathy Reichs and I'm glad I hung in there for the whole book but I didn't really get hooked ... I'm not sure why I didn't and what was missing. The story never really engaged me and while I understood her frustrations it seemed just a bit scattered vs what I've come to expect from her. I do understand and appreciate the point that seemed to have been guiding the story line (and that is explained at the end) but getting there was a bit rough to me. I finished the book and am glad I did but it took a bit more determination and work than it usual.
heatherg213's review
3.0
I love me some David Boreanaz. Way before there was Team Edward, there was Angel, the tortured vampire with a soul from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. What does David Boreanaz have to do with a Kathy Reichs novel, you ask? Nothing-except that he now plays a characters on Bones, a television show VERY loosely based on Kathy Reichs character Temperance Brennan. I give you this background on DB as an explanation for my love of said show, despite the fact that the only things that the show and Kathy Reich's actual books have in common is the name of the main character and her profession. If you want the REAL Temperance Brennan, you have to read the books.
Like her latest book, 206 Bones. There's a lot going on in this one, even though it is one of her shorter books. There is a sabotage plot, a serial murderer, and a 40 year old missing person's case. The best part-Andrew Ryan, the hot Quebecois police officer, is back. He's done with the mother of the child he just found about about, and he is ready to get back to business with Tempe. Question is, is she ready for him? (I for one am rooting for them to get back together-hot guys that speak French are quite a catch!)
As usual, the story is fast paced, and there is lots of really interesting forensic anthropological goodness. The title of the book, of course, refers to the number of bones in the human body. One thing of interest for Chicago-dwellers is that the setting for the first part of the book is Elmhurst. Tempe, who's originally from Illinois, comes back to visit her former in-laws, and while here she gets sucked into a missing persons case. I so enjoyed reading that part of the book-the body is found at the Thornton Quarry, just below the bridge that take Interstates 294 and 80 over the large hole in the ground where my daughter thought the Flintstones lived when she was little. This is, oh, about five minutes from my house. I drive over that bridge so often it doesn't even trigger my bridge phobia. Every step of their time in Chicago was recognizable to me...I love it when an author takes the time to get the details right.
I have to admit, I've felt let down by the last couple Reichs books. It seemed like she was phoning it in, and I thought that maybe concentrating on the show was taking away from her writing. But this book gives me hope that we are going to get out of the doldrums and get back to the fascinating exploration of forensic anthropology that is a Temperance Brennan novel.
Like her latest book, 206 Bones. There's a lot going on in this one, even though it is one of her shorter books. There is a sabotage plot, a serial murderer, and a 40 year old missing person's case. The best part-Andrew Ryan, the hot Quebecois police officer, is back. He's done with the mother of the child he just found about about, and he is ready to get back to business with Tempe. Question is, is she ready for him? (I for one am rooting for them to get back together-hot guys that speak French are quite a catch!)
As usual, the story is fast paced, and there is lots of really interesting forensic anthropological goodness. The title of the book, of course, refers to the number of bones in the human body. One thing of interest for Chicago-dwellers is that the setting for the first part of the book is Elmhurst. Tempe, who's originally from Illinois, comes back to visit her former in-laws, and while here she gets sucked into a missing persons case. I so enjoyed reading that part of the book-the body is found at the Thornton Quarry, just below the bridge that take Interstates 294 and 80 over the large hole in the ground where my daughter thought the Flintstones lived when she was little. This is, oh, about five minutes from my house. I drive over that bridge so often it doesn't even trigger my bridge phobia. Every step of their time in Chicago was recognizable to me...I love it when an author takes the time to get the details right.
I have to admit, I've felt let down by the last couple Reichs books. It seemed like she was phoning it in, and I thought that maybe concentrating on the show was taking away from her writing. But this book gives me hope that we are going to get out of the doldrums and get back to the fascinating exploration of forensic anthropology that is a Temperance Brennan novel.
cursivequeen's review
4.0
Got this one at comic con and read it in a week, very good. I tend to jump around in the ones of her books Ive read, but they're always good and they tend to be easy to figure out whats going on in the areas of storylines that are continuations.
wannabekingpin's review
3.0
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skaitom nakties rezimu
About the Book: A colleague enters Brennan’s work field, just to quickly become a bitter rival in everything. Outperformed in every step of the case, Brennan feels angry, and strangely unsafe in her own surroundings, and her own mind. Slipping mentally, or actual sabotage? Colleague determined to advance her career at any cost, or is someone truly out there determined to destroy her reputation?
My Opinion: I like the ones where I can’t fully predict the perps, their relation or sequence. But it’s getting dull what with Brennan constantly having her Spidey-sense tingle, where she knows that she knows something, she just doesn’t know what she knows. Still, writing remains smooth, easy to read, and that’s really all I need right now, so be sure, I’ll continue.
night mode reading ;
skaitom nakties rezimu
About the Book: A colleague enters Brennan’s work field, just to quickly become a bitter rival in everything. Outperformed in every step of the case, Brennan feels angry, and strangely unsafe in her own surroundings, and her own mind. Slipping mentally, or actual sabotage? Colleague determined to advance her career at any cost, or is someone truly out there determined to destroy her reputation?
My Opinion: I like the ones where I can’t fully predict the perps, their relation or sequence. But it’s getting dull what with Brennan constantly having her Spidey-sense tingle, where she knows that she knows something, she just doesn’t know what she knows. Still, writing remains smooth, easy to read, and that’s really all I need right now, so be sure, I’ll continue.